Took a brief tour of some of those applications, (actually the numbers posted are publication numbers) and what do I find? On any patent application where Moore is inventor or coinventor you find communications which appear to be asking for authority to act on those applications even though the assignor will not agree.

<The petition includes a declaration executed by Vice-President F. Eric Saunders on behalf of rule 47(b) applicant for the non-signing inventor. Accompanying the declaration was a 3.73(b) statement establishing VP Saunders authority to sign on behalf of rule 47(b) applicant. The petition includes a statement of the last known address of inventor Moore. VP Saunders states on petition that the invention was developed by Charles Moore and assigned to rule 47(b) applicatn. The petlition includes a copy of the assignment executed by inventor Moore and recorded in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. By declaration of VP Saunders, applicant further sets forth facts to show why the filing of the application is necessary to preserve the rights of the parties and/or to prevent irreparable damage. >

We need some people with legal expertise to figure out exactly what these petitions are all about. I think that the patent office was not allowing some application to move forward with the patent owners oath/declaration. Moore and certain others would not sign an oath/declaration that they were the inventors. Something like that.

Additionally, there is reference elsewhere to a master agreement governing the protfolio.

And so the saga continues. Opty